“Vindictive”, “Anti-Employee”, “Biased”: AUD Students & Faculty Protest Removal of Two Professors
11 November 2024 | Edex Live
Protests erupted on the campus of Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) today, November 11 by student organisations and teachers’ groups, against the dismissal of two well-regarded academics from their teaching positions.
These academics, prominent historian Prof Salil Misra and Prof Asmita Kabra from the School of Human Ecology at the university, were terminated by AUD’s Board of Management (BOM) last Friday, November 9.
Professors Misra and Kabra, who formerly served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of AUD, stand accused of “irregularities” in the regularisation of 38 contractual workers between 2018 and 2019. This termination followed a departmental inquiry into the matter by a committee constituted by the BOM.…